Environment
Maryland Directory
Recognizing the
need for information about environmental career and educational
options for interested students, the Environment Project partnered
with the Maryland State Department of Education, Maryland
Department of the Environment, Maryland Department of Business
and Economic Development, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Baltimore
Urban League, and the Western School of Technology and Environmental
Science to produce a statewide directory of environmental
business, education, and career resources in Maryland. Dubbed
"Environment Maryland! A Directory of Business, Education
and Career Resources", the directory was released by Governor
Glendening at a press conference in Baltimore in July 1996.
"Environment Maryland!" profiles nearly 1,000 private, non-profit
and government environmental employers and educational institutions
across the state. In addition, the directory contains information
on national and state employment trends and career pathways.
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Environment
Maryland Website
To continue its
work in cooperative education program development, as well
as optimize on-going updating of Environment Maryland!, the
Environment Project developed an online version of Environment
Maryland! The central mission of the website is to link environmental
employers, educational institutions, and students interested
in environmental careers in order to foster environmental
education and workforce development opportunities.
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Environmental Curriculum Integration
The
future of environmental education is the integration of environmental
concepts into other, more traditional disciplines, such as
math, physics, chemistry, and business. The need for such
environmental curriculum integration is becoming increasingly
clear. While society has made progress in dealing with specific
environmental issues and problems since the first Earth Day
nearly thirty years ago, many environmental problems, particularly
those of a global scale, have emerged. To combat such problems,
specialized environmental education is required for individuals
interested in careers protecting the environment as well the
instruction of environmental concepts throughout many other
related disciplines. The mission of the Environmental Curriculum
Integration Project is to foster integration of environmental
curriculum into more traditional disciplines, particularly
those within the math and sciences, but also within business,
ethics, sociology and other relevant schools of thought. Click
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Governor's
Youth Environmental Summit
In
an effort to disseminate information about environmental careers
and education opportunities and options, the Environment Project
facilitated the Governor's Youth Environmental Summit held
in 1997 at the Baltimore Convention Center. Over 900 high
school students and educators from around the state attended
this one-day conference. Project staff and faculty managed
the event with funding received from the Maryland State Department
of Education, the Maryland Association of Environmental and
Outdoor Educators, and the Chesapeake Bay Trust. Click
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Green
Work Publications
The Environment
Project received a grant from the Baltimore County Career
Connections Office in 1998 to develop and publish two environmental
career guides for high school guidance counselors, teachers,
students, and parents. Published in 2000, "Green Work" contains
information about environmental employers, and "Green Jobs"
describes environmental employment and careers. Click
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School-to-Careers
Environment Project staff
began focusing on Career-to-Work programs in early 1995. Recognizing
that no formal Career-to-Work program involving environmental
science and technology education was in place in Maryland,
Environment Project staff became involved with the Maryland
State Department of Education Career Connections initiative.
Environment Project staff helped draft a state proposal for
federal School-to-Work funds and coordinated a panel on environmental
education at a federal School-to-Work site visit. In September
1995, the Environment Project received support from the Maryland
State Department of Education for a project entitled "Environmental
Technologies School-to-Careers Pilot Project" to develop environmental
School-to-Career programs. A critical element of the success
of the project was the active involvement of environmental
employers.
Capitalizing
on the publication of "Environment Maryland!" and the involvement
of the Maryland Environmental Business Alliance, the Environment
Project received an Employer Incentive Fund grant in 1997
from the Maryland State Department of Education. The mission
of the grant was to implement School-to-Career programs with
area environmental employers. As part of the grant project,
an Education & Training Technical Advisory Committee, a MEBA
subcommittee was created to provide guidance in implementation
of School-to-Work programs. A series of workshops and employer
led programs were conducted as part of the grant, all focused
on different aspects of environmental School-to-Career programs.
At these workshops, involving area employers, educators, and
students, perceived obstacles to School-to-Career were openly
discussed and resolved.
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